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The End Of The Death Trap: How A Tragic Car Crash Saved Formula One Racing

A new documentary chronicles the life and death of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna and with it, how his tragic end led to sweeping changes in car design—and saved countless lives. READ»

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Full Throttle: Vintage Motorcycles, Custom Choppers, and Racing Machines

The Shelburne Museum of Shelburne, Vermont showcased some of the most bitchin' motorcycles on the road in their exhibition, Full Throttle: Vintage Motorcycles, Custom Choppers, and Racing Machines. These cycles were so good-looking, words can't express it, so just take a look.READ»

Formula Zero Emissions-Free Racing Takes Off

Vehicle racing is at its core an unsustainable sport--we have enough trouble finding the resources to power utility-driven vehicles--but that hasn't stopped enterprising Formula One lovers from going ahead with the second annual ...READ»

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Race Car Made From Vegetables--Fuelled by Chocolate--Goes for a Test Spin

The Internet has been buzzing about the WorldFirst ecoF3 vehicle, a race car made from vegetables that runs on chocolate-derived biofuels, for the past month. Now the race car's developers at the Warwick Innovative Manufacturing ...READ»

NASCAR Team to Clean Up its Eco-Cred, But Formula 1 Still Wins That Race

NASCAR, if you think about it, represents all that's environmentally nasty about gasoline vehicles--fuel-guzzling cars muscling their way around a track at as high a speed as possible for entertainment. Sprint Cup team Hall of Fame ...READ»